Excerpt from Life and Writings of Ebenezer Porter Mason: Interspersed With Hints to Parents and Instructors on the Training and Education of a Child of Genius IT appears to have been the practice of British writers much more than of our own, to give extended biographies of their youth who, in the morning of life, exhibited extraordinary talents, and gave promise of the highest excellence, but sunk prematurely into the grave. They have tli'tis not only paid a suitable hom age to genius, but have secured to their country the honor of which a nation may well be emulous, - that of giving birth to the fairest specimens of the race. They have in this way rescued from oblivion, and placed on the records of fame, their Admirable Crichtons, their Henry Kirke Whites, their James Hay Beatties, and their Thomas Spencers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.